Download PDF : E&M 32:2                                                                                                                                                                                                                     EDITORIAL The Patient as Person, the Diagnosis as Personal C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS The Elemental Ethicon William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD Morality and Ethical Theories in the Context of Human Behavior Irina Filip, MD; Neeta Saheba, MD; Bryan Wick, MD; Amir Radfar, MD, MPH, MSc A Metaphysical Definition of Death Margaret M. Sealey, MB, ChB, FFARCSI, MA, BA Virtue as Mediator : Informing Health Care Issues Through Virtue Ethics and Scripture Stephen Meawad, MT An Aristotlian -Thomistic Moral Analysis of Two Cases of Medical Induction for Previable Infants Renee Mirkes, OSF, PhD Book Reviews Should We Live Forever? The Ethical Ambiguities of Aging Gilbert Meileander, Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2013. ISBN  978-0-8028-6869-5.   121 PAGES, PAPERBACK, $18.00. Reviewed by Todd T.W. Daly, Phd(Theological Ethics), who is an Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics at Urbana Theological Seminary in Champaign, Illinois, USA, an associate fellow at the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity in nearby Deerfield, Illinois and has served as an inaugural fellow at the Paul Ramsey Institute. He currently resides in Champaign, Illinois, USA. Reproductive Medicine and the Life Sciences in the Contemporary Economy : a Sociomaterial Perspective Alexander Styhre and Rebecka […]

Download PDF : E&M 32:1  EDITORIAL On the Role of Physicians and Goals of Medicine C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Ethical Assessment of Personal Health-Monitoring Technologies That Interface with the Autonomic Nervous System William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD Respecting the Wishes of Incapacitated Patients at the End of Life Sim Shin Wei, MBBS; Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna, MBChB, MA, FRCP, FAMS, PhD Periviability : Translating Informed Assent and Non-Dissent to Obstetrics Tara A. Lynch, MD; Paul Burcher, MD, PhD Gender Dyspohoria and the Ethics of Transsexual (i.e., Gender Reassignment) Surgery Todd T.W. Daly, PhD Book Reviews The New Kinship : Constructing Donor-Conceived Families Naomi Cahn, New York and London : New York University Press, 2013 ISBN   9780814772034       256 PAGES. CLOTH. $35.00 Reviewed by Kate Jackson-Meyer, MA (Religion), who is currently a doctoral student and Flatley Fellow in theological ethics at Boston College, is co-coordinator of BC Theology Partakers Group (providing academic support to the imprisoned) and Graduate Assistant in Medical Humanities at Boston College, Boston, MA, USA. God, Freedom, and Human Dignity : Embracing a God-Centered Identity in a Me-Centered CultureRon Highfield, Downers Grove : IVP Academic Press, 2013. ISBN    978-0-8308-2711-4       […]

Download PDF : E&M 31.3       EDITORIAL We’re All in This Together C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS The Sum of All Thoughts: Prospects of Uploading the Mind to a Computer William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD The Principle of Totality and the Limits of Enhancement Joshua W. Schulz, PhD Assisted Reproduction, the Logic of Liberalization, and Five Christian Responses Morten Magelssen, MD, PhD; Ole Jakob Filtvedt, PhD Ethics  Tensions Involved in Mandatory Immunization Programs: A Communitarian Response Dennis L. Sansom, PhD Book Reviews Patient Care and Professionalism Catherine D. DeAngelis, editor. Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-992625-1. 219 PAGES, CLOTH, $45.00Reviewed by Susan M. Haack, MD, MA (Bioethics), MDiv, FACOG, recently retired from consultative gynecology at Hess Memorial Hospital and Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauson, Wisconsin, USA. An Introduction to Biblical Ethics: Walking in the Way of Wisdom Robertson McQuilken and Paul Copan, Downers Grove, IL. InterVarsity Press Academic, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8308-2818-0. 667 PAGES. HARDCOVER, $45.00. Reviewed by Stephen N. Williams, MA, PhD, who serves in the Editorial Board of Ethics & Medicine and is a Professor at Systematic Theology at Union Theological College in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. The Therapeutic Cloning Debate: Global Science and Journalism in […]

Download PDF : E&M 31.2                                                                                                                                                                                                                             EDITORIAL Why Doctors Must not Be Complicit in Killing Their Patients C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST EDITORIAL Is the Technological Imperative Imperative? Jacob Shatzer, MDiv, PhD GREY MATTERS Beyond Humanity: Theological and Biotechnological Perspectives on Enhancement in Dialogue William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD Theology and Technology: Mapping the Questions Jacob Shatzer, MDiv, PhD Autonomy vs. Selflessness at the End of Life Hannah B. Martin, BA; Daryl F. Sas, PhD Book Reviews Renaissance, the Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times Os Guinness. Downers Grove, IL; IVP Books, 2014 ISBN 978-0-8308-3671-0 (ELECTRONIC: 978-0-8308-9657-4), 187 PAGES, PAPER, $11.99 Reviewed by Robert E. Cranston, MD, MA, FAAN, who is an associate clinical professor (Neurology) at University of Illinois College of Medicine, a hospital ethicist at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana-Champaign, and is medical director for medical subspecialties at Carole Clinic in Urbana, Illinois, USA. Disaster Bioethics: Normative Issues When Nothing Is Normal (Public Health Ethics Analysis, Vol. 2) Donal P. O’Mathuna, Bert Bordijn, and Mike Clarke (Eds). Dordrecht: Springer, 2013. ISBN: 978-9400738638, 219 pages, cloth, $99.64. Reviewed by Sharon A. Falkenheimer, MD (Aerospace Medicine), MPH, MA (Bioethics), who has taught bioethics at the University of Texas Health […]

Download PDF : E&M 31.1                                                                                                                                                                                                                            EDITORIAL Dying Well C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST COMMENTARY A Traditionalist Protestant Response to Roman Catholic Rules about the Induction of Unborn Anencephalic Babies Thor Swanson, MDiv, ThM, MA GREY MATTERS Multitasking and the Neuroethics of Distraction William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMA Choosing Birth or Death – Before Birth Robert D. Orr, MD, CM Euthanasia and the Experience of the Yoruba People of Nigeria Aborisade Olasunkanmi The Sociocultural and Ethical Issues Behind the Decision for Artificial Hydration in a Young Palliative Patient with Recurrent […]

Download PDF: E&M 30:3 EDITORIAL                                                                                                                                                                                        Human Dignity: A First Principle C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Can Electronic Medical Records Make Physicians More Ethical? William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD ORIGINAL ARTICLES Medicine and the Pressure of the Marketplace: Ethical Issues Involved in Medical Research and Practice Dennis Sansom, PhD The Moral Philosophical Challenges Posed by Fully Implantable Permanent Pacemakers Paul Walker, MBBS, FRACS, FACS; Terence Lovat, BTh, BLitt, BEd, MA, ThM, PhD; James W. Leitch, MBBS, FRACP; Peter Saul, MA, MB, MChir, MRCP, FRCA, FANZCA, FCICM Global Bioethics and Respect for Tradition: A Response to Ruth Macklin Gregory L. Bock, PhD BOOK REVIEWS In  Search of the Good : A Life in Bioethics Daniel Callahan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. ISBN  9780262018487 ; 232 PAGES, CLOTH, $29 Reviewed by D. Joy Riley, MD, MA(Bioethics) Changing Signs of Truth : A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication Crystal L. Downing. Downer’s Grove, IL: IVP Academics, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8308-3966-7, 295 PAGES; PAPER, $24 Reviewed by Susan M. Haack, MD, MA(Bioethics), FACOG Incarnational Humanism : A Philosophy of Culture for the Church in the World” Jens Zimmerman. Downer’s Grove, IL : IVP Academic, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8308-3903-2; 325 PAGES, PAPER, $30 Reviewed by […]

Download PDF: E&M 30:2 EDITORIAL Shouldn’t Children Want Parents of Their Own? C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Dignifying Intellectual Disability William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD ORIGINAL ARTICLES Freedom for Life : Karl Barth, Transhumanism and Human Flourishing Jonathan M. Cahill The Development of Ethical Guidelines for Clinical Research : Serendipity or Eulogy Bhumika Aggarwal, MBBS, DTCD, MBA, MPM & Mayank Gurnani, MBBS, MBA Readability of Research Consent Forms in a Military Treatment Facility Cristobal S. Berry-Cabin, PHD, Cheri L.Portee, BSN, Lindsey A. Beaman, BSCR, Kyle L. Hoedebecke, MD BOOK REVIEWS Beyond Humanity?: The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement Allen E. Buchanan, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN:  987-0-19-958-781-0; 286 PAGES, CLOTH, $35.00. Reviewed by Sharon A. Falkenheimer, MD (Aerospace Medicine), MPH, MA (Bioethics) Better Than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves Allen E. Buchanan, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-979787-5; 208 PAGES, CLOTH, $21.95. Reviewed by Sharon A. Falkenheimer, MD (Aerospace Medicine), MPH, MA (Bioethics) Development of Bioethics in the United States (Philosophy and Medicine Vol. 115)  Jeremy R. Garrett, Fabrice Jotterand, and D. Christopher Ralston (Eds.). NY: Springer, 2013. ISBN: 978-94-007-4010-5; 279 PAGES, CLOTH. $129.00 Reviewed by Sharon A. Falkenheimer, MD (Aerospace Medicine), MPH, […]

Download PDF : E&M 30.1                                                                                                                                                                                                                             EDITORIAL The Human Commodity Nightmare C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Miniature Human Brains: An Ethical Analysis William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Compromising the Ethicist Anonymous Ethical Issues Raised by Compassionate Access to Experimental Therapies James J. Rusthoven, MD, MHSC (bioethics), PhD A Lutheran Defense of the HPV Vaccine Thor Swanson, MD Playing God: Medical Ethics and Biblical Justice Matthew S. Kerlin, PhD BOOK REVIEWS Personal Identity and Fractured Selves: Perspective from Philosophy, Ethics and Neuroscience Debra J.H. Matthews, Hilary Bok, and […]

Download PDF : E&M29.3 EDITORIAL Medicine and the Care of Strangers C. Ben Mitchell, PhD   GREY MATTERS Neurologic Pain Signatures and Neuroethical Calligraphy William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD   CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS The Health Care System Bites Back William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD   Will You Be a Provider or a Professional? Robert D. Orr, MD, CM   Whose Dignity? Reflections on a Deceptively Difficult Term in Bioethical Debates Todd T.W. Daly, PhD   Beyond Genetic Determinism David W. Chapman, PhD   Biotechnologies and Human Nature: What We Should Not Change in Who We Are Dennis Hollinger, PhD   Book Reviews The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying Jeffrey P. Bishop, Notre Dame University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. ISBN 0-268-02227-5: 411 PAGES, PAPERBACK, $35.00 Reviewed by Todd T.W. Daly, PhD (Theological Ethics). Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics at Urbana Theological Seminary and the fellow of the Paul Ramsey Institute. He serves on the Ethics Committee at Carle Hospital in Champaign, IL, USA.    

Download PDF : E&M 29.2 EDITORIAL Medical Ethics and Moral Habitus C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Doctor’s Handwriting Gone Digital: An Ethical Assessment of Voice Recognition Technology in Medicine William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS A Physician’s Covenant Anonymous Commercialized Medicine Contra Christian-Hippocratism Gregory W. Rutecki, MD Codes of Ethics in Health Care: Virtue Versus Rules Dennis Sansom, PhD Narrative and a Christian Bioethics Hannah Wakefield   Book Reviews The Wonder of Consciousness: Understanding the Mind through Philosophical Reflection Harold Langsam, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011 ISSN 978-0-262-01585-1. 234 PAGES: CLOTH, $35.00 Reviewed by Susan M. Haack, MD, MA (Bioethics), MDiv, FACOG, a consultative gynecologist at Hess memorial Hospital and Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauston, Wisconsin, USA Thinking About Christian Apologetics: What It Is and Why We Do It James K. Beilby, Downers Grove: InterVarstity Press, 2011 ISBN 0-830-83945-3; 214 PAGES, PAPERBACK, $17.00 Reviewed by Todd T. W. Daly, PhD (Theological Ethics), Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics at Urbana Theological Seminary and a scholar in the Paul Ramsey Institute. He also serves on the Ethics Committee at Carle Hospital in Champaign, IL, USA